Do you think Atheists are stupid?

[Belacqua]

This is certainly the case with some atheists. We see people who hate the irrationality and falsehoods of religion so much that they will make irrational and false accusations against it. 

It's not true of all atheists, though. 

What I think we atheists have to admit is that some very smart people are not atheists. Just recently I was reading about Kurt Gödel, for example. He was a smart person. And he believed in a life after the death of the body, in which we will be reunited with our loved ones. He had an elaborate argument as to why he thought this is the case.

Won't happen. Although there might be a form of existence after death of the physical body.

I also find it extremely unlikely.

My only point was that some very smart people are not atheists.

[Ravenshire]

Could be anywhere.

He's not in my sock drawer, I looked.

Now you've done it. The christers will be along shortly to try to fill that gap with their gawd.

[Ravenshire]

Think of God as an inanimate object that can still feel and observe things. That's what I mean by "hypostatic". God isn't really "alive" in the traditional sense, He is more like a hyper observant alien.

yes, but how do you know this??

Our village idiot makes up their own shit to believe in.

[The Valkyrie]

yes, but how do you know this??

Our village idiot makes up their own shit to believe in.

"This god is hypostatic
Why, it's greased lightning!!"

[Nay_Sayer]

"God observes our dimension from a kind of "hypostatic" vantage point"   First, how do you know?   second, what does it mean?

Think of God as an inanimate object that can still feel and observe things. That's what I mean by "hypostatic". God isn't really "alive" in the traditional sense, He is more like a hyper observant alien.

Your god is a bad dragon dildo? neato.

FSM is way cooler, Xhe is animated and gives noodly appendage back rubs

[Astreja]

Real question here, I mean most people become Atheists because either one they're vexed at God or two because they can't reconcile their Faith with Science.

I didn't have to "become" atheist.  I merely find religious claims so silly and unconvincing that I've never experienced religious faith, per se.

[Ahriman]

Real question here, I mean most people become Atheists because either one they're vexed at God or two because they can't reconcile their Faith with Science.

I didn't have to "become" atheist.  I merely find religious claims so silly and unconvincing that I've never experienced religious faith, per se.

Well, it's not like you have to believe in religious claims to believe in God.

[Astreja]

I didn't have to "become" atheist.  I merely find religious claims so silly and unconvincing that I've never experienced religious faith, per se.

Well, it's not like you have to believe in religious claims to believe in God.

"God exists" *is* a religious claim, and I've never had faith in the existence of any god. In order for me to believe in a god, it would have to be real in a tangible sense - actual physical evidence of the god itself.

[Ahriman]

I didn't have to "become" atheist.  I merely find religious claims so silly and unconvincing that I've never experienced religious faith, per se.

Well, it's not like you have to believe in religious claims to believe in God.

"God exists" *is* a religious claim, and I've never had faith in the existence of any god.  In order for me to believe in a god, it would have to be real in a tangible sense - actual physical evidence of the god itself.

You don't have physical evidence for the existence of gravity. Do you think gravity is real?

[brewer]

Won't happen. Although there might be a form of existence after death of the physical body.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neu...-cell-line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortalised_cell_line